Device for supporting hides.



Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

fnae 771371 M Q TO-LITHDGRAPHER2L WASWNGTDN o c HERBERT S. CROMBIE, OFVVOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR SUPPCRTING I-IIDES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 12, 1909.

Application filed. January 22, 1909. Serial No. 473,633.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT S. CROMBIE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Woburn, in the county of Middlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices forSupporting Hides, (Case A,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for supporting hides, particularlyhides which have been coated with a patent leather preparation and whichit is desired to have dry in the open air.

The obj eot of the invention is to provide a device of the character setforth which can be manufactured very cheaply and which can be. readilyattached to the edges of the hide which is to be dried and which canalso be attached to a frame so as to support and stretch the hide outhorizontally during the drying of the patent leather preparation in theopen air. 7

, erably of wood with a cord attachedthereto by suitable fasteningmeans. In the use of the device, the preparation which is used forcoating the hides has such an effect upon the cords that they becomerotted and useless after having been used once or twice, therefore thesedevices have to be thrown away after having been used once or twice andconsequently it is very essential that the device should be not onlymade of cheap material but that it should be capable of beingmanufactured rapidly by machinery in order to reduce the cost to a pointwhere the same may be used without increase of cost of the manufactureof the patent leather to an appreciable degree.

The invention consists of a bar with a cord extending transverselythereof and suitable fastening means extending through the bar andextending across and in contact with said cord on opposite sides of thebar, whereby the cord is securely fastened to the bar and said bar, whenmade of wood, is prevented by the cord from splitting.

The invention consists of the device described in the followingspecification and nected to said hide and frame.

clenched at 15, 15 across the cord 11.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view of one of my improved deviceshereinafter named toggles. Fig. 3 is a side view as viewed from the leftof Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an end view of the same. Fig. 5 is an end view of amodified form of my invention and Fig. 6 is a plan of the same.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of thedrawings.

In the drawings, 7 is a drying frame of any suitable construction and S,8, 8, are toggles constructed in accordance with my invention.

9 is a hide of patent leather.

In the form of my invention illustrated in Figs. 2 3 and 4 there is abar 10 preferably of wood and a cord 11 which extends around three sidesof said bar transversely thereof; said cord is fastened securely to thebar 10 by a staple 12. The closed end 13 of the staple 12 extends acrossthe cord 11 on one side ofsaid bar and the legs 14, 14 of said stapleproject through the bar 10 to the opposite side of said bar where theyape t will be seen that by this construction the cord is firmly securedto the bar 10 and in pulling upon the cord 11 the same has to pullaround the corners of the bar 10 and is held by this arrangement as wellas by the staple, from becoming detached from the bar when the cord isunder the tension of the hide 9 to which it is attached.

In Figs. 5 and 6 I have illustrated a modified form of my invention inwhich the cord 11 extends entirely around the bar 10' and is fastenedthereto by a staple 12 which engages the cord on one side of the bar 10at its closed end 13 and the legs 14:, 14 of which extend through thebar and on the opposite side of said bar are turned over or clenched toengage the cord again. It will be seen by reference to Fig. 5 that theclosed end of the staple 12 engages the body portion of the cord andalso the free end of said cord while in the form of my inventionillustrated in Fig. i the closed end of the staple engages the bodyportion of the cord and the clenched ends of the legs of the stapleengage the free end of said cord. Both of these forms are, however,similar in that the cord extends around a plurality of sides of the barand is fastened by the staple to the bar in a similar manner.

In using my improved device for sup porting hides, the hides are punchedwith preparation has dried the hides are detached from the toggles bycutting the same, as for instance, along the broken and dotted lines, Fi1.

it will be noted that by the particular manner in which the cord 11 isattached to the bar 10, as hereinbefore described, when said bar is madeof wood and it is desired to make the same by machinery, the stapleperforms the function of securely attaching the cord to the bar and thecord performs the function, not only of enabling the bar to be attachedto a hide, but also that portion of the cord which extends around thebar prevents said bar from splitting when the staple is driventherethrough by machinery, and, as before stated, it is essential, inorder that the device should be manufactured cheaply enough to be of anypractical Value and so that the same may be placed upon the market, thatthe same should be manufactured by machinery and that Wood should beused in the manufacture of the bar. Therefore, the article as producedis not only strong, cheap and durable, but it can be produced by the aidof automatic machinery, the staple and the cord each performing itsrespective function, as hereinbefore set forth, to render the completeddevice strong and durable.

It will be noted thatthe cord extending around three sides of the bar ofwood forms a cushion between the ends of the legs of the staple whenthey are being clenched to the wood, thus preventing the splitting ofthe wood, which certainly occurs without such a cushion, or would occurif a hard piece of metal, like a wire, were inserted between the ends ofthe legs of the staple and the wood, so that the cord not only pen formsthe function of holding the Wood to gether, so that the same will notsplit when said cord is wrapped around three sides of the bar, but also,in addition to this holding function of the cord, the same performs thefunction of a cushion to prevent the legs splitting the wood when theyare being clenched therein.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire by LettersPatent to se cure is:

A device of the character described, consisting of a bar, a cordextending transversely thereof, and fastening means extending throughsaid bar and extending across and in contact with said cord on oppositesides of said bar.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing Witnesses.

.HERBERT S. GROMBIE. Witnesses CHARLES S. Goonmo, DANIEL A. RoLLrNs.

